About

Nanse Gum, Music Director & Conductor

"Nanse GUM is a forceful and dynamic conductor whose love and understanding for music has made him one of the most respected in his field." Nanse GUM made his debut as a conductor at the age of 17 by performing a youth orchestra. After graduating from Seoul National University, he went to Berlin in 1974 to study under professor Hans-Martin Rabenstein at the Hochschule der Kunste berlin. He went on to study under Pierre Dervaux in Nice and Paris, France. In 1997, GUM participated in the 'International Young Conductor's Competition of the Herbert von Karajan Foundation, in which he was chosen as one of top finalists and was given an opportunity to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and thereafter, the Berlin Radio Symphonic Orchester and the Rundfunkorchester Hannover des NDR (Hanover Radio Symphony Orchestra). Since returning home in 1980, he was appointed Conductor of the Korea Philharmonic Orchestra (currently KBS Symphony Orchestra) and has enriched the repertoire by developing music programs for the orchestra and featured a number of talented soloists, domestic and foreign.
Since late 1980s, GUM has been active in organizing music programs among musicians of European countries and Korea, which led to his appointment in 1987 as Music Director of the European Masters Orchestra as assembly of many talented musicians from various renowned European orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic and the National Radio-France Orchestra. In 1988, the EMO performed in Zagreb (Yugoslavia), Budapest and many cities in Korea. During that period, he regularly appeared with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra with which he toured Finland(1991), Berlin(1992), and Korea(1993). GUMs list of guest conducting engagements in North American includes Prague's Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Sacraments Symphony Orchestra, the Alsaska Symphony Orchestra, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra, the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and Moscow Philharmonic. From 1992 to 1999, Nanse served as Music Director of the Suwon Symphony Orchestra in Korea and Principal Conductor of the Deutsche Kammer Orchestra in Frankfurt, Germany.
Since 1999, GUM has been primarily engaged in the activities of EURO-ASIAN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. Under his dynamic leadership, the Orchestra has rapidly gained prominence in the national music scene through annovative educational programs that appeals to music lovers of all ages. GUM is also currently serving on the music faculty of KyungHee University, Seoul Korea.

Seoul Yego Youth Symphony Orchestra

Established in 1953, the Seoul Arts High School (Seoul Yego) has been widely recognized as the foremost pre-professional school for young and specially gifted musicians, dancers, and visual artists in Korea, and has produced leading musicians and the finest performing artists for the last half century. The school is also renowned for its high quality of artistic and scholastic curriculum as well as the excellence of its faculties.

The Seoul Yego Youth Symphony Orchestra, which began its professional activities in 1972, has established itself as the official representative of the Seoul Arts High School. In addition to concerts in Korea, the Orchestra had numerous concerts throughout the world. In 1987, the orchestra won first prize for chamber music at the Aberdeen International Music Festival in Scotland, and was invited back to the Festival in 1994.

In 1992, the Orchestra performed for the opening concert at the Okayama Philharmonic Concert Hall in Japan. In January 1997, it performed in San Jose, California, and made their debut at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. The young artists have received an invitation to perform in New York Orchestra Festival, sponsored by World Project, to be held in the world famous Carnegie Hall in 2004. In 2006, they gave the 50th Annual Concert at the Seoul Arts Center in Seoul.